March is Women’s History Month, and PETA celebrates not only women, but females of all other species as well! No social justice issue stands alone, and the pursuit of equal rights for women must be intertwined if we are to see a real shift in society. For those of us who identify as feminists (and we all should), equality should be maintained for all and avoid participating in the exploitation of the female body during this Month of Women’s History and beyond, regardless of species.
Here are five ways you can take action to end the oppression of exploited animals in this month of women’s history:
1. Become a vegan
Animals used for food are forcibly fertilized and used for their reproductive system. A mother pig is locked in a pregnancy cage or farrowing cage for most of her adult life and is inseminated repeatedly just to see her babies separated from her. A baby cow is kidnapped shortly after birth and is attacked for milk. The chicken is locked in a filthy barn and all of her eggs have been stolen. Once these animals can no longer be used for profit, they are considered useless and slaughtered.
Avoiding meat, dairy products and eggs means opposing the exploitation of animals for the sake of their reproductive system. After all, we are animals too, and we would not want anyone to do this kind of thing to us.
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2. Help close the National Primate Research Centers (NPRC)
Each year, each of the seven National Institutes of Health receives tens of millions of taxpayer dollars through the National Institutes of Health. They spend money to take babies and young monkeys from their mothers, causing immeasurable suffering for both, and use them in aggressive, painful, excruciating and very often deadly experiments. NPRC experimenters have carved animal skulls in brain research, starved them in diet research, infected them with Zika virus and other diseases, and worse. These experiments are not only unethical, but they also do not lead to treatment or vaccination.
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3. Adopt pets – never buy them
Dog breeders knock down litter after litter to make money. Imagine being forced to conceive and give birth only to have your children kidnapped a few weeks after their birth. Siblings who would spend their lives together if given the opportunity to get divorced and go home with anyone with a credit card. When you put yourself in the shoes of the mother dogs used for breeding, it becomes obvious why treating them like baby breeding machines is so wrong, especially with the 70 million stray cats and dogs in the United States, in part because of the negligence of their owners. neuter or neuter your animals.
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4. Ditch wool and all other animal materials.
In the wool industry, sheep were sheared, kicked, slaughtered and stomped – we have videos from 117 farms in six countries on four continents. All Wool operations are bad because we cannot take the wool, and the brutality that is so widespread in this industry makes it even worse.
In 2015, an eyewitness working on a farm in South Australia saw an overseer hit a lamb on a wooden floor and throw the young animal into a pen to die. One worker hit a ram in the face; said to the animal: “Lie down again, cunt, I will kill you”; and stuck his finger into the anuses of the other two sheep to drive them up the ramp to the shearing rack. In another case, the shears were called “cunt” and “whore”. The sheep told the lamb that he “shoves [the shearing clippers] up your [ass]… “This is how the woolen industry workers are accustomed to treating the female body. In Victoria, Australia, a sheep likely had a labor when she was cut with sharp metal nippers for a prolapsed vagina – the size of a melon. When he finished with her, he used her own wool to wipe her blood off the floor. Workers impregnate female sheep against their will so that victims continue to thrive, and consumers pay for wool products, perpetuating a vicious cycle of abuse and exploitation. Don’t get involved in this.
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5. Never go to SeaWorld or other marine parks.
SeaWorld does not respect mothers, babies and families. Katina, a killer whale separated from her mother Katerina at the age of two, was repeatedly forced to give birth. Only two of her seven children survived, one of whom she gave birth to. a son (Taku). Beluga Luna, imprisoned by SeaWorld for more than two decades, has repeatedly fertilized and gave birth to three cubs. To force her to conceive her first calf, workers sexually abused her by forcibly impregnating her with the sperm of Nanuk, another beluga whale who fell victim to the messy SeaWorld breeding program. Nanook was abducted from his home in the ocean at the age of 6 and retrieved from the water approximately 42 times due to lust for sperm by SeaWorld workers, who used his sperm to produce 13 babies, six of whom died at birth or shortly thereafter. Female bottlenose dolphins are still plucked out of the water and sometimes drugged to prevent them from resisting while staff members insert tubes filled with sperm into their uterus. Killer whales, other dolphins and beluga whales are highly intelligent mammals that love their young, form complex and meaningful relationships, and stay close to their families. SeaWorld is nothing mo
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than abuseThe company’s cop park is built on the exploitation of animals.
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Social justice must be inclusive, and since the pursuit of freedom is not a specific human trait, our commitment and pursuit of equal attention must including animals too. Women deserve equal rights, just as other species deserve freedom, equal attention and autonomy over their bodies and lives. Let’s make history by rising to dismantle systemic sexist exploitation all women’s bodies in this month of women’s history and every day after.